What's this doodad?
What's this doodad?
I was looking at the RTX 5090 listings on NewEgg and the last picture (7/7) on this MSI card is a thing I don't recognize. Anyone know what it is?
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GPU support pillar. This is what it looks like extended. These really help with GPU sag and remove some pressure off the PCI slot.
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Nice, where'd you find the pic? I briefly looked to confirm my hunch but didn't find it.
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Couldn't you just put your PC case horizontally to avoid GPU sag as well? I have a horizontal case and I'm not sure why it's so uncommon.
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It's uncommon because people like to see the inside of their pcs, especially on an enthusiast level.
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Probably the GPU support. Top piece screws into the body for height adjustment.
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Dang, those get FANCY!
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I didn't realize this was a thing. Card must be really heavy! My 3080 came with a sort of bracket to prevent sagging but this is next level. @edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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Computerized butt plugs are getting really fancy these days. Those suprim models are supposed to have a custom mini 5090 card for text to speech LLM inferencing. Even has CUDA support but I hear that gets painful.
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When your GPU is so fancy it comes with a matching pepper grinder.
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Kinda looks like a GPU support pillar like this one but it doesn't quite seem to be cylindrical so idk
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a nuclear reactor for the GPU
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A mere 575W TDP LMAO
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Looks like a gpu support. It's to fix sag cuz 5090s are massive and they're rly likely to sag
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A guess: a USB drive for updating firmware? Never seen this for a GPU though. Only used for motherboard BIOS that I know of. Trinket USB drive for no reason?
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